15 January 2017

Enemy Mine

Dennis Quaid – Smart People, American Dreamz, Day After
Tomorrow, Far from Heaven, Postcards from the Edge, Great Balls of Fire,
Caveman

Why? Sounded
interesting

Seen: 13 January
2017

Humans battle Draks (male and female in
the same body) in space over resources. Human bomber pilot Willis crash lands
on a planet and finds there a Drak. Wills stalks the Drak with intent to kill
but the Drak outsmarts him. Willis is stupid, arrogant, irritating and racist.
The Drak is smart, funny and more human than the human.

A spoof? A comedy? A parody? An adventure
story? A social commentary?

The planet is hostile. They have to
cooperate to survive and take turns saving each other’s lives, while arguing
violently over who started the war and whose fault everything is.

It turns out that the Drak is pregnant.

What a strange movie. At moments it has
the feel of a 50’s musical (not one of the good ones). At times it’s an
anti-racist fable. It’s full of pathetic clichés, badly written lines and bad
acting. It has some interesting ideas and takes a few unexpected turns.

From 0 * at the beginning it seems to
have crawled up a bit but it’s far too long and it ends with one of those
stupid fist fights that directors can’t seem to resist.